Jeremy Corbyn kicked off the clash with questions over the NHS during Prime Minister's Questions.

The programme consulted 271 NHS trusts in the UK, receiving feedback from around a thousand workers.

Of those, 70 per cent of EU staff said the Brexit vote made the UK a less appealing place to work, 66 per cent were worried about their future career in the NHS and 42 per cent were considering leaving in the next five years.

British doctor Helen Skinner and her German husband Gert quit their jobs in the days after Brexit, determined to move out of the UK.

Helen told Sanders: “We’d talked about it during the campaign and then when it happened we felt it was the right thing to do. It felt as though half the country wanted [Gert] out.

“All of the rhetoric since we made the decision has backed up our decision to go. It feels like a less tolerant place, not a place I want to work in anymore.”

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Dispatches on Ch4 - The UK government wants to recruit another 10,000 nurses to the NHS

Chris Whitney-Cooper from De Montfort University in Leicester told the programme there is a significant lack of nurses in the UK.

She said: “We are in a little bit of a crisis at the moment. The government says we need another 10,000 nurses and we don’t have the capacity to achieve that quickly.

“In the short term, there’s no way we can make that shortfall.”

The Department of Health told Dispatches: “We want to give more domestic students the chance to be doctors and nurses.”